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The Guard (2011)

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Directed by John Michael McDonagh
Written by John Michael McDonagh
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A Irish guard is teamed up with an FBI agent to investigate drug smugglers.
Don Cheadle plays t he FBI agent and Brendan Gleeson is the guard.  They are both hilarious.  The humor is very deadpan.  I laughed hard throughout.  The movie never gets overly fake like some comedies.  It isn’t slapsticky.  It’s humor comes from the how bluntly confrontational Gleeson’s character is and how straight-laced Cheadle is and how he cannot believe the things Gleeson says.  An excellent film.


8.5/10
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